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Hear about the latest product and service offerings from the government contracting industry’s leading providers. The Government Technology News section highlights developments in aerospace, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, defense, C4ISR, cloud, hypersonics, and space.
Amazon Web Services has completed a readiness assessment for Wickr, a technology offering designed to help government users exchange encrypted messages, under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Wickr for Government has been granted the FedRAMP Ready designation in the moderate baseline after the platform underwent an evaluation against a set of federal security […] More
The Government Accountability Office has recommended that the undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense ensure that the Missile Defense Agency gets an independent technical risk assessment and cost estimate for the Glide Phase Interceptor program prior to transitioning to the product development phase. GAO said Thursday it made the recommendation after […] More
In response to the global semiconductor chip shortage, the U.S. government is working with industry and academia to foster a more robust and capable onshore microelectronics manufacturing ecosystem. “We’re noticing an increasing reliance on specialized parts outside of the United States,” said Dr. Roy Campbell, chief strategist for the Department of Defense’s High Performance Computing Modernization […] More
Peraton announced on Tuesday that the company has been awarded a potential seven-year, $916 million task order from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to provide integrated, enterprise-wide management services for the office. “At our core, Peraton thrives on supporting critical government missions of consequence, and there are few missions more important than […] More
Matt Mandrgoc, head of U.S. public sector at Zoom Video Communications, said agencies should secure government communications by implementing platforms that could help safeguard the exchange of sensitive data during meetings and one of those tools is the Zoom for Government platform. Mandrgoc wrote in a blog post published Friday that Zoom for Government comes […] More
Gregory Bowman, chief innovation officer of Siemens Government Technologies, said adopting digital thread and digital twin technologies could help government and corporate organizations address challenges associated with reshoring manufacturing supply chains. A digital twin uses machine learning, simulation and reasoning to improve decision-making, while a digital thread is a data-based architecture that connects supply chain […] More
John Steckel, vice president of Corporate Development at American Systems, one of the largest employee-owned federal contractors in the country, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding his appointment into a position with the company and its meaning to the future of the company. In addition, Steckel also discussed the company culture as a significant driver of success as well […] More
KBR has announced the availability on the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Marketplace of its cloud-based platform designed to facilitate the collection, archival, distribution and review of surveillance evidence gathered by mobile users. KBR Vaault for Public Safety Video Evidence is a commercial cloud and mission service offering that could help organizations consolidate, retrieve, […] More
Defense ministers from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands will allocate approximately $28 million in funding to explore novel platforms for their future helicopters under NATO’s Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability project. The six allies will work with industry to study open systems architecture, hybrid and electric propulsion and other options as they […] More
A new SolarWinds report indicates that three-quarters of government information technology professionals surveyed within the U.S. and Canada are looking to adopt hybrid IT strategies over the next three years. The software company said Tuesday that the SolarWinds IT Trends Report’s public sector segment covered responses from 79 North America-based tech specialists and aimed to determine how their departments […] More
Northrop Grumman performed a ground demonstration of a laser communications system as part of a prototype satellite constellation for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. The company said Tuesday Mynaric supplied the laser communications in the space domain and Innoflight provided encryption, decryption and other components of its prototype architecture. […] More
The United States is in the midst of a microelectronics dilemma. Demand for semiconductor chips has skyrocketed but supply chain problems have created a drastic decline in chip manufacturing, sparking a national security issue for the U.S. “Semiconductors are essential to national security,” according to a White House supply chain report. These chips are at the […] More
